WordPress Gallery MaxGalleria

Description

MaxGalleria gives you a responsive WordPress gallery plugin that is a joy to use. MaxGalleria gives you a streamlined experience for creating and managing responsive WordPress galleries that look great on any device.

MaxGalleria has been going strong and improving for over 5 years. We regularly update MaxGalleria and its addons plus we give terrific, timely support. We take great pride in the reviews by our users. Here are some of our favorites.

Perfect! – Use it in combo with Media Library Folders. Great for sites having a lot of image galleries. Easy to organize them in separate folders using Media Library Folders and adding the images to MaxGalleria with a click of a button. Light box works great on all devices I have tested it. You can also specify how many images to load per page in order to lower the page load time. – from ditko74

Amazing! – By far the best gallery plugin available to WordPress users. – from itsjayd

Goodbye NextGEN Gallery. Hello MaxGalleria – I’ve been looking for a replacement or alternative for the NextGEN Gallery plugin for some time, but couldn’t settle on anything, specially because of the way most plugins and WordPress itself handles image organization. Enter MaxGalleria and and Media Library Folders which is a simpler way to manage images, an enhancement to the built in WordPress media manager and capable of creating folders to organize files and move them around. It’s a great plugin. – from theYahzee

Useful Info

Get the Gallery Look and Feel You Want

MaxGalleria comes with 6 beautiful preset layouts for you images and video. But you can change pretty much everything about how they are laid out and displayed. Or build your own from scratch using our easy to use interface. Choose from a wide range of options for borders, thumbnails, lightbox and advanced settings. See all of the options.

A Responsive WordPress Gallery for All Devices

From iPhones to iPads to Androids to desktops, MaxGalleria provides a great viewing experience no matter the device your galleries are seen on.

From lightboxes to sliders to layouts MaxGalleria provides a highly streamlined user interface that makes it as straightforward as possible to create and manage your galleries.

NextGEN Gallery Importer

Frustrated with the NextGEN Gallery plugin? You’re not alone. As the best alternative to NextGEN Max Galleria lets you Import your NextGEN with just a couple clicks.

Use Only What You Need

Don’t get bogged down with useless features. MaxGalleria gives you all the essentials, then lets you pick and choose enhanced functionality.

Great for Designers

MaxGalleria includes several gallery presets, each with plenty of options to customize your galleries just how you like. It also contains a complete set of options for borders, border colors, border size and thumbnails so you can create just the look you want.

Built with Developers in Mind

The MaxGalleria gallery platform was created with developers in mind. You’ll find countless actions and filters to make your heart sing.

Addons to Enhance Your Gallery Experience

Many people will find the core MaxGalleria plugin all they will ever need; however, some people will want to take their gallery and album experience further. And to do help them do that, there are several addons available:

Media Library Folders

Media Library Folders (MLP) is a plugin that helps you manage larger libraries in the WordPress Media Library. MLP lets you add and build new folders to organize your media. If you want to create a media folder for a specific gallery or album, copy all of the images you want to use into the folder. Since Media Library Folders contains a MaxGalleria integrations you can easily load those images into a MaxGalleria gallery.

Media Library Folders Pro lets you use The WordPress Gallery, Jetpack Gallery Templates and NextGEN gallery to create image and video galleries. With The WordPress Gallery you can create Galleries directly from your editor. The NextGEN Gallery integration work in the same manner as with MaxGalleria. MLPP also helps increase the speed of viewing folders with a large number of images or video. It also contains an integration to add media directly into a post or page.

Features at a Glance

MaxGalleria is stuffed full of all the features and functionality you need to easily create and manage your image and video galleries in WordPress.

You can see all of the features of MaxGalleria [here](http://maxgalleria.com/features?utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=featureglance&utm_content=featureglance&utm_campaign=repo

We work hard to give timely support during the week. And we give support when we’re on during the weekend

Screenshots

Installation

For automatic installation:

Login to your website and go to the Plugins section of your admin panel.

Click the Add New button.

Under Install Plugins, click the Upload link.

Select the plugin zip file from your computer then click the Install Now button.

You should see a message stating that the plugin was installed successfully.

Click the Activate Plugin link.

For manual installation:

You should have access to the server where WordPress is installed. If you don’t, see your system administrator.

Copy the plugin zip file up to your server and unzip it somewhere on the file system.

Copy the “maxgalleria” folder into the /wp-content/plugins directory of your WordPress installation.

Login to your website and go to the Plugins section of your admin panel.

Look for “MaxGalleria” and click Activate.

FAQ

Does MaxGalleria come with documentation?

Yes. All documentation, which includes QuickStart Guides and developer hooks references, can be found here.

Do I have to buy any of the addons to fully enjoy MaxGalleria?

No. The MaxGalleria core plugin contains plenty of functionality to keep even the most die-hard gallery user happy. But for those looking to enhance their gallery experience with layouts for Albums, Sliders or media sources like Instagram or Flickr then MaxGalleria addons are the perfect choice.

Why do I need a Google Developer API Key to add Youtube videos to a gallery?

Google has recently depreciated the use of the Youtube API version 2 which MaxGalleria uses. We have updated MaxGalleria version 3.1.8 to use version 3 of the API. The new API provides new features for application developers. And it also requires programs accessing Youtube data, such as thumbnails, titles and captions, to have a Google Developer API Key.

MaxGalleria users will now be directed to obtain a Google Developer API Key in order to add new videos to their galleries. Existing galleries are not effected by this change.

MaxGalleria works seamlessly with the plugins Media Library Folders and Media Library Folders Pro (available at MaxGalleria.com) to make organizing you images and files in a manner that suits your needs rather than using WordPress’ default year/month folder scheme. Media Library Folders allows you to create folders and subfolders, upload, move, copy or delete files in the folders you created. It also updates the links to files and images embedded in your posts and pages when you move or rename a file. And you can add images to existing MaxGalleria galleries from Media Library Folders. As a result, all your gallery images can be grouped according to folders in the WordPress Media Library.

This is a really powerful and versatile plugin by itself, with a lot of options for upgrading to additional paid features. The developer took the time to answer my question and provide code to optimize my gallery in spite of the fact that I have not yet purchased any paid upgrades. Very pleased with this plugin.

Added PRESERVE_MAXGALLERIA_TEMPLATE to (1) prevent the coping of the file single-maxgalleria.php
to the site’s current theme folder when MaxGalleria is activated and (2) prevent single-maxgalleria.php
from being deleted when MaxGalleria is deactivated. To us put
define(‘PRESERVE_MAXGALLERIA_TEMPLATE’, true);
in your wp-config.php above the line that says /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

3.0.3

Fixed uninitialized variable

Fixed incorrect value in deleting unneed postmeta record

3.0.2

Added Slick for WordPress to the MaxGalleria dashboard promo

3.0.1

Added test for querying attachments before adding group by

Fixed problem with lightbox opening image pages when more than one gallery is on a page

Added user recommend CSS to fix problem with video thumbnails

Added fix for when the option ‘Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders’ is off